SIR – John White (Letters, August 30) is absolutely spot on. I recently travelled through Wales and as soon as I crossed the border towards Welshpool I noticed that the roads became smooth and newly-refurbished.
I saw flags in shop windows and on houses. Not one Union Jack. The towns were not crowded and appeared full of Welsh people enjoying each other’s company.
They have a parliament of their own people looking after their own interests. We do not ask our English MPs to don uniform and go to fight – and die – on the beaches of Normandy as did my father.
Is it too much to ask them to simply represent their own people, to give voice to English opinion and oppose the wholesale plunder of our country.
Are they proud to represent an English county or simply grateful to be in a very lucrative well-pensioned job?
Fred Bishop, Lower Moor
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